Books by Rosie Harris

What price will she pay for following her heart? Eighteen-year-old domestic servant Kate Stacey is passionately in love with David Owen, the brother of Lady Helen Sherwood. They both know their romance would be a scandal but seeing a chance for them to spend more time together, David recommends Kate as nanny to his young nieces at Bramwood Hall. Their secret relationship is soon discovered and he is recalled to his father's industrial empire in the Welsh Valleys, while Kate is abruptly dismissed. Kate follows her heart, and David, to Wales. However, she is shocked by the poverty and squalid conditions on which the Owen fortune is built. As her sympathies increasingly lie with the workers, she finds herself dangerously caught up in their political cause. Her love for David endures, but is he strong enough to defy his father - and can Kate contemplate a future built on the proceeds of human misery?A heartwarming historical saga of love against the odds, perfect for fans of Rosie Clarke and Mollie Walton.

Her destiny was certain but love had other plans...Lieutenant Kate Russell's post-war life was all mapped out. According to her upper class parents' wishes, she planned to marry a man with a pedigree like her own. But fate had other ideas in the form of Robert Campbell, a mere staff driver. Kate is irresistibly drawn to him and they decide to wed. Her family, initially outraged by the proposal, agree to accept their marriage but only if Robert climbs the ranks of the army. But when the Allied forces declare victory and Robert goes on to become a Major, Kate finds that she has another bitter war to fight. Trapped by the possessive demands of her aristocratic parents, she fights her own lonely battle to save her marriage and her reputation. An enthralling saga of love and marriage, perfect for fans of Rosie Goodwin and Anna Jacobs.

A chance meeting will change her life in ways she never could have imagined...As the Second World War continues to bring heartache to those left behind, Megan Lloyd is determined to do her bit for the war effort. She is appalled by the plight of young women left pregnant and destitute following ill-fated love affairs with passing sailors or American GIs, and establishes a place of refuge for unmarried mothers.But Megan's plan incurs her father's intense disapproval and she finds herself cast out from the family and unprepared for the challenges ahead. Her new life is full of trauma, drama and heartbreak, but can she find joy and love as well?An emotional wartime saga set in Liverpool, perfect for fans of Lyn Andrews and Pam Howes.

An accident will open her eyes to a world she never knew existed... Penny Forshaw is racing through the streets of Liverpool in her father's new motor car, rushing to meet her fiance, and is horrified when she knocks over a little girl. Penny feels it is her duty to take in six-year-old Kelly while she recovers, much to her fiance's disapproval. Learning about Kelly's miserable, poverty-stricken existence since the Great War opens Penny's eyes to a world she never knew existed. Her decision to look after Kelly will change her in ways she could never have expected, and Penny will make sacrifices for her decision. She wanted to give Kelly a better chance in life - but it may be Kelly who changes Penny's world for the better. An uplifting tale of love and family from much-loved saga author Rosie Harris, perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and Margaret Dickinson.

When Gaynor's God-fearing father drives her childhood sweetheart away, she's certain she will never love again. Until, with war looming, he must return home and Gaynor is left heartbroken once more. And when her parents discover she's pregnant and insist she cannot keep the child, Gaynor runs away to Cardiff.

They shared a secret no one must ever know... When seventeen-year-old Ruth Davies' father is invalided out of the Great War, the whole family has little choice but to move to the infamous Tiger Bay area of Cardiff.

1943. Wartime England. Married to a Guardsman at the age of eighteen, Helen Woodley believed her future was assured - only to be widowed before she was forty. And now Helen is faced with an unwelcome sense of deja vu - her eighteen year old daughter has fallen for a soldier. Can Helen prevent history from repeating itself?

Then Ifor remarries, and Sara's new stepmother is a hard taskmaster who considers everything Sara does inadequate or wicked. When Sara meets Rhys Edwards, nephew of the owner of the bakery where she works, she falls in love for the first time.

In spite of her father's words of warning, Sharon Pritchard decides to give up everything to follow her heart. However, her new life with Hadyn is anything but easy. Although he is handsome and charming, he is feckless and unreliable. And they soon find themselves sinking ever faster into poverty.

Lucy Collins and her brother Sam have lived side by side with the Tanner family all their lives. Until tragedy strikes when Lucy's parents are killed in a car crash, and Sam is left gravely injured and in need of careful nursing.

It is 1914, and Christabel Montgomery is happily preparing for her wedding when she receives the shattering news that her fiance has been drowned at sea. But she soon discovers she is pregnant, and fearing her parents would throw her out if they knew, she decides to help the war effort by leaving home to become a nurse.

Fern Jenkins' life is changed for ever when her brother is killed in action and her father dies in a mining explosion. Turned out of their home by the ruthless pit owner, Fern and her mother Wynne are forced to seek a new life in Cardiff.

Here she is swept off her feet by handsome Gwyn Roberts, but when she becomes pregnant her parents are devastated and turn her from their door. All Gwyn and Sarah can afford are two squalid rooms in the infamous slums of Cardiff and Sarah soon realises she's made a terrible mistake.

A mother will do anything to protect her child... Karen and Tudor Morgan have moved from a small mining community to the bustle and noise of Cardiff in search of a new life.

A life full of shattered hopes... Brenda O'Donnell is turned out by her family when she finds herself pregnant at sixteen. And when Sid dies and leaves the business to his cousin, Charlie, life becomes even harder for Brenda as she faces the threat of losing everything she holds dear...

Her life was full of hardship and despair... When Molly's father returns from the war a broken man, the whole family is forced to move into the slums of Liverpool. But when a fire destroys their home, not only do Molly and Jodie lose their mother, but they find themselves homeless and with a very bleak future ahead of them...

But soon tragedy strikes - Julia's baby is stillborn at the same time as Eunice gives birth to a healthy baby girl, Amanda. However, Paul and Eunice Hawkins hide a secret too terrible to reveal and it is only after their untimely deaths and teenage Amanda's sudden disappearance that Julia finds out the truth.

A GRIPPING AND MOVING SAGA SET IN 1920S MERSEYSIDE. She saved the business, but can she save herself?After years of neglect by her mother, when her father comes home from sea and sets up as a carrier at the Liverpool Docks, Patsy dreams of being a proper family again.

Life seems to alternate between periods of happiness for pretty seventeen-year-old Sheryl Williams after she marries dashing soldier Alun Powell, and times when bad luck and despair almost drown her happiness forever. Their life together is full of recriminations and when Alan is imprisoned, desperate Sheryl is forced to turn to the Powells.

A POWERFUL SAGA SET IN LIVERPOOL. She fell in love - he broke her heartYoung Megan Williams has come to Liverpool in search of work and a fresh start.

The youngest of three, she longs to be loved by her mother, but Ellen spends all her time with her eldest son, while Abbie and her brother, Sam, take refuge with their neighbours, Sandra Lewis and Peter Ryan. But Peter and Sandra have a secret - one that could destroy the friends' relationship should it become known.

Crippled by polio, young Winnie Molloy has little to look forward to in life. He fears for Winnie and persuades Sandy Coulson to wheel her to school each day in a converted pram. To pay the rent on the one squalid room they are now living in she takes Winnie in the pram out begging until she is given a warning by the police.